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News and analysis about trends and hot topics in the cloud, with a particular focus on platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and hybrid models.

by Nancy Gohring

Nancy Gohring is a freelance journalist who has been covering tech, including cloud computing and the mobile industry, for more than a decade.

AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center pan out

Posted Jan 15, 2013 - 08:22 pm

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region
FatFractal CEO: Enterprise mobile apps don't need to be so crappy

Posted Dec 26, 2012 - 10:00 am

IT needs a mindshift and should allow new tools like BaaS that would let most anyone in an organization build mobile apps, FatFractal's CEO said.
AWS rolls out automation feature -- should vendors be worried?

Posted Jan 09, 2013 - 03:21 pm

AWS is now letting customers set rules that will automatically shut down instances that go unused, for example.
SLAs from HP and AWS shouldn't make you feel particularly confident

Posted Dec 06, 2012 - 05:41 pm

If Gartner's Lydia Leong is right, Amazon and HP have little confidence in the reliability of their own cloud services.
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As standalone businesses, PaaS providers aren't cutting it

Posted Dec 19, 2012 - 02:18 pm

A recent Forrester survey about cloud usage reveals no surprise about the number one cloud for developers: Amazon Web Services, by a wide margin. Of the 106 developers surveyed, 71 percent said they'd used AWS to build custom apps.
Dell, Intel investment in Mirantis represents a vote for open OpenStack

Posted Jan 10, 2013 - 08:00 pm

Dell, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital are investing $10 million in OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis
Skytap's strategy: Get into the enterprise through test and dev

Posted Nov 15, 2012 - 05:55 pm

It's a noisy market out there for cloud services, with more service providers starting up than the market can handle. This week, Skytap rolled out a couple of new features that makes clear its strategy for getting a foothold in the competitive market.
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Newvem joins competitors, offers free tier

Posted Feb 19, 2013 - 03:54 pm

Newvem is offering some free data about customer AWS usage in hopes of breaking into the small and medium size business market
IBM, Oracle talk up enterprise cloud offerings

Posted Jan 31, 2013 - 12:58 pm

IBM and Oracle talked up their services this week. Combined with other enterprise services in the works, from the likes of Dell, and those already available, from companies like HP, 2013 is shaping up to be an important year for enterprise cloud.
New call for AWS spinoff

Posted Feb 11, 2013 - 06:00 pm

Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan said that an Amazon Web Services spin off is "inevitable due to its channel conflicts."

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